Patrick Grady - Men's Golf Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Patrick Grady

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
patrick.grady@colorado.edu

                    Patrick Grady was the assistant men’s golf coach at the University of Colorado for the better part of five years, as he returned on June 2, 2015 from private business to his alma mater, where he lettered four times in the 2000s. Following the fall portion of the 2019-20 season, he decided to return to his private business as a certified public accountant but has remained on board in a volunteer coaching capacity.

                    Grady, 37, was working as a CPA in the Denver area after he tried his hand at professional golf following graduation. He still plays professionally in select regional tournaments during the summer.

                    As a player, he rose from a late signee on the smallest amount of scholarship money there is to one of the nation’s top 50 golfers by the conclusion of his senior year. Grady was not recruited by any Division I golf program out of high school, but after he won the CJCA Match Play Championship in July 2004, he was offered a spot on the CU team in the summer of 2004 by the late Mark Simpson; that first year, he was on 1 percent scholarship, basically enough to cover his books.

                    He initially intended to redshirt, but showed early flashes and qualified for CU’s third tournament of that season. He instead redshirted after his junior season, and when he returned to the lineup as a fifth-year senior for the 2008-09 season, he had the kind of year that earned him CU’s Co-Male Athlete of the Year honors for all sports (with teammate Derek Tolan). He played in all 13 tournaments, with two wins, five top 5, eight top 10 and 10 top 20 finishes. He earned PING All-Region honors and was an honorable mention All-American, finishing as the No. 46 ranked player in the nation (Golfweek).

He recorded a 71.98 stroke average for his senior season, the third best in school history at the time and still fifth on the charts (with his 71.32 average during the spring the second best, just .02 off the record and which still stands as the third best).   His outstanding spring was topped by his victory in CU's Stevinson Ranch Invitational, where he cruised to a win with an 8-under par 208 score. His top fall highlight that year was his first career collegiate win, when a 67-69-68—204 scorecard (12-under par) earned him medalist honors at Denver’s Ron Moore Invitational at Green Valley Ranch (he was named the Golfweek National Player-of the-Week for that effort).

In amateur play, he became the first and to date is still the only player in state history to win the three “majors,” the Colorado Golf Association’s Match Play Championships in 2005, the Stroke Play title in 2006 and the Public Links crown in 2007 (the latter was discontinued in 2014). He was a two-time state amateur player-of-the-year.

                    A Coloradoan to the core, he was born in Westminster and graduated from Broomfield High School, where he lettered four years in golf. He graduated from CU with a double major in Business (finance and accounting) in May 2009. As a senior, he was named to the prestigious GCAA All-America Scholar team (golf’s version of Academic All-America), and was a two-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 team member.

                    At the time of his graduation, he finished 14th in the most rounds played (113) at Colorado, finishing 16th in career stroke average (74.45), ninth in top 5 finishes (7), sixth in top 10 finishes (12) and ninth in top 20 efforts (18).

Professionally, he played for three-and-a-half years on assorted tours, but had most of his success primarily on the Adams Tour, where he won five times. He has continued playing competitively while coaching, and was named the 2016 CGA’s Apprentice Player of the Year after he won the Colorado PGA Assistants Championship; he then placed 11th in the National Assistant PGA Professional Championship (where he shot an even-par 288 in Port St. Lucie, Fla.).

Grady still plays in several of the area state opens, and tied for third in the 2018 Wyoming Open with a 9-under par 201 score. He also was third the same summer in the in the PGA Assistants Championship (Saddle Rock GC) and in the Laramie Open, and has several wins and numerous top 10 finishes over the past few years in single-day events.

He was born March 17, 1986 in Westminster, Colo. His grandfather on his mother’s side played football at the University of Denver and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but had to forego the NFL when he was drafted into the army. A second cousin, Kevin McDougal, played football at Colorado State and for three years with the Indianapolis Colts. He joined his older brother Jim in Boulder, and at the time, became the fifth set of brothers on the golf team simultaneously.

He is married to the former Jessica Borth, a former golfer at Sam Houston State, and the couple has two daughters, Madelyn Jo (4) and Clare (2).

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	Overall					Spring			Fall
Season	Rd	Strokes	Avg.	Lo	Hi	Rd	Strk	Avg	Rd	Strk	Avg.
2004-05	8	630	78.75	73	87	8	630	78.75	-	--	--
2005-06	26	1982	76.23	65	84	20	1503	75.15	6	479	79.83
2006-07	39	2922	74.92	70	82	24	1800	75.00	15	1122	74.80
2008-09	40	2879	71.98	66	78	22	1569	71.32	18	1310	72.78
Totals	113	8413	74.45	65	87	74	5502	74.35	39	2911	74.64

Rounds Toward Team Scoring: 95 of 110 (86.4%).
Stroke Count In Relation To Par (+332/+2.94): +60/+7.50 (2004-05); +122/+4.69 (2005-06); +128/+3.54 (2006-07); +22/+0.55 (2008-09).
Finishes—Wins: 2 Top 5: 7 Top 10: 12 Top 20: 17